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Message: [QUOTE="microfich, post: 5351067, member: 1029"] Not to hijack but here's some Lyman Depriest information: Undersized at 6'5" but blessed with a linebacker's body, DePriest found a niche as a defensive stopper. While an efficient shooter (47.4%), he wasn't built to score. He was the guy Jim Calhoun called on to stop the opponent's best player. That included centers and point guards. The kid was just possessed on defense, provided with an effective combination size and some of the quickest, wide-striding legs you'll ever see. He was Jim Calhoun's first recruit at UConn, setting the tone for the program for years to come. “Coming out of high school, my high school coach, Darrell Pursiful, that’s what he stressed, defense, defense. So that was always in me," DePriest said. In the NIT semifinals of 1988, Calhoun put the 6-foot-5 DePriest, a freshman, on Boston College’s quick, high-scoring guard Dana Barros. “Dana was very much like Shabazz [Napier] offensively,” Calhoun said. “So difficult to guard. And Lyman, did he hold him to two points? No. Two shots.” Back for one of the Calhoun Celebrity Classic games, DePriest was asked to compare his game to another defensive stopper in Husky history, the Langdon Strangler, Ricky Moore. "Ricky was really good (defensively), but the difference between me and Ricky was that Ricky didn't guard 6-foot-9 guys down to 5-11 guys." [/QUOTE]